𝔟𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔮𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫

[dracodelight]

ZOBRIESDARIA⸻ INDEPENDENT, MUTUAL EXCLUSIVE AND SELECTIVE BLOG FOR QUEEN RHAENYRA TARGARYEN FROM FIRE AND BLOOD AND HBO'S HOUSE OF THE DRAGON AND GAME OF THRONES. SELECTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF SEASON SEVEN UP TO SEASON EIGHT EPISODE ONE. CST + 3. SHE/HER. WRITTEN BY CALI. (#)

psa: this blog does feature rhaenyra and daemon as a couple and romantically. i will do my best to keep it all checked and tagged properly, but I believe their relationship is intricate to one another's backstory and one of the central keys to the civil war. this is the warning about it.

promo. carrd. headcanons. memes.

[dracodelight]

Her   firstborn   had   been   taken   expectations   and   duties   beyond   anyone's   desires   or   thoughts.   She   knows   well   that   he   does   it   out   of   the   goodness   of   his   heart,   and   his   own   passionate   thoughts   regarding   the   usurpation   of   her   right   and   by   extension   his   own.   The   North   follows   her   because   of   him   as   well   as   the   Vale   and   she   could   not   be   prouder.   But   the   loss   of   a   child,   two   really,   makes   her   fearful   of   him   even   daring   to   go   close   to   a   battlefield.   Even   his   negotiations   with   the   Vale   had   made   her   both   proud   and   fearful,   despite   knowing   Vermax   would   never   let   him   alone   or   be   without   protection.

  "I   am   aware   you   think   I   am   putting   you   on   a   leash   rather   than   letting   you   be   the   prince   you   wish   to   be."   And   it   is   not   rare,   especially   in   their   family,   that   a   prince   takes   a   dragon   to   battle.   Daemon   himself   had   done   so   plenty   of   times,   and   many   before   them.   "You   are   not   only   a   prince,   but   my   heir   and   my   firstborn."   And   she   hopes   he   can   see   that   the   thought   of   losing   him   is   unconvenable   for   her.   "Once   we   secure   King's   Landing,   I   would   feel   better   to   let   you   fly   on   Vermax   to   battle."  

Once   King's   Landing   is   theirs,   she   can   feel   more   relaxed.   She   has   more   "The   Council   agrees.   And   they   do   see   your   efforts   and   know   your   wishes."   Her   sweet   boy   no   longer.   Hardened   by   war   and   his   own   losses   and   worries.   The   loss   of   a   brother   is   something   she   cannot   relate,   for   they   were   but   babes   when   they   died,   and   those   alive   currently   stand   on   her   throne   and   home. @realmsworth

[cyberstole]

𝒜 𝒟𝐎𝐖𝐑𝐘 𝒪𝐅 𝐵𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐛𝐲 𝐬.𝐭. 𝐠𝐢𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐧

a series of dialogue prompts from the 2021 dracula re-telling.  feel free to change pronouns as you see fit ! cw; gore, sexual themes, emotional abuse, & toxic relationships

❛ i never dreamed it would end like this. ❜ 

❛ there is no horror left in this world that can surprise me. ❜

❛ eventually, even your death becomes its own sort of inevitability. ❜

❛ i was so happy to be your marionette, at first. ❜

❛ am i sick to still think on you softly, even after all the blood and broken promises? ❜

❛ this is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. ❜

❛ war is never valiant, only crude and hideous. ❜

❛ good. when life fails you, spite will not. ❜

❛ i will raise you out of the dirt and into queenship. and, i will give you your vengeance. ❜

❛ i wanted to break them, even more slowly and painfully than they had broken me, leave them bleeding out and begging for mercy. ❜

❛ water your mother’s flowers with their blood. ❜

❛ in this world, you are what i say you are, and i say you are a ghost. ❜

❛ bloodlust brings on a delirium that’s difficult to describe. ❜

❛ i have loved you too long to imagine you do anything without an ulterior motive. ❜

❛ i’ve never been looked at before. like that. ❜

❛ what is more lovely, after all, than a monster undone with want? ❜

❛ i was your little mouse, kept in a gilded cage until it was time for the cat to play. ❜

❛ i knew nothing except the strength of your arms and the scent of your hair. ❜

❛ your priest’s bedtime stories cannot account for us. ❜

❛ to know oneself, one’s limits and abilities, is its own power. ❜

❛ i was alone, and i was scared. i had no home left to speak of. ❜

❛ and god, how i adored you. it went beyond love, beyond devotion. ❜

❛ i wanted to dash myself against your rocks like a wave, to obliterate my old self and see what rose shining and new from the sea foam. ❜

❛ you turned a strong-minded girl into a pulsing wound of need. ❜

❛ what would you have me do, as ruler? ❜

❛ are you sure you aren’t a holy man come to lecture me on the sins of excess? ❜

❛ i was well-acquainted with violence by then. ❜

❛ but I had never outgrown my thirst for vengeance. ❜

❛ in my mind, i was god’s lovely angel of judgement, come to unsheathe the sword of divine wrath against those who truly deserved it. ❜

❛ you mocked my lofty aspirations, cynical as ever. ❜

❛ when will you give up this ridiculous crusade? ❜

❛ there was a darkness in your eyes and a tightness to your mouth i hadn’t noticed before—or perhaps hadn’t wanted to. ❜

❛ i would never leave you, my love. not for the entirety of my second life. ❜

❛ you seemed to me a fire burning in the woods. i was drawn in by your enticing, smoky darkness, a darkness that still stirs memories of safety, of autumn, of home. ❜

❛ it was like grasping at a flame. i never penetrated to the burning heart of you, only came away with empty, scorched fingers. ❜

❛ whenever we were apart, you left your essence caught in my hair, in my clothes. i scented the taste of it on the wind, I shivered and ached for it. ❜

❛ i was happy to spend countless lifetimes chasing the warmth coming off you, even though the haze was clouding my vision. ❜

❛ my piety was a sporadic, half-feral thing, sometimes lashing out at god with teeth bared, other times nuzzling against his loving providence like a kitten. ❜

❛ i felt my heart tumble down through my ribs and hit the ground. ❜

❛ it tortured me, how perfect you looked. i wanted to pull you behind the carriage and drain you dry. ❜

❛ i wanted to crawl between whatever was blossoming between the two of you and live there. ❜

❛ you’ve found cruelty to be an effective tool. ❜

❛ do you want her for your own? ❜

❛ ours is a solitary existence. it would be good for you to have a friend. ❜

❛ it’s as easy as breathing. one foot and then the other. and don’t overthink it. ❜

❛ you must never overthink any good and pleasurable thing. ❜

❛ you must sit with me tonight at dinner. i must have you close. i want us to be the best of friends. ❜

❛ i think i shall never marry, my lord. i will simply take lovers and never let any man shackle me with wedding vows. ❜

❛ am i to be bidden to my own bed like a dog invited to beg at the master’s table? ❜

❛ desire makes idiots of all of us. but you already knew that part, didn’t you? ❜

❛ there was an uncontrollable fire in you that was hard to look away from, much less resist. ❜

❛ all vampires find some way to stave off the monotony of an endless life, with hedonism or asceticism or a rotating door of lovers. ❜

❛ i’m talking about us, you and i. let’s be honest with each other, for once. ❜

❛ love was no girlhood game. it was an iron yoke, forged in fire and heavy to wear. ❜

❛ laying with you made me feel so vibrantly alive. it was almost enough to make me forget that i was already dead. ❜

❛ this is about your obsession with justice, isn’t it? ❜

❛ i was suspicious, and even more dangerously, i was curious. ❜

❛ i was the love that started it all, wasn’t i? ❜

❛ it has been a long time since i have felt clean. ❜

❛ like christ, i had become intimately acquainted with violence and the sins of the world, but i had not come away unblemished. ❜

❛ but it was not god who spoke.it was you. ❜

❛ you could have kissed me or slit my throat and either would have made as much sense. ❜

❛ i don’t know what I had been thinking, supposing i was strong enough to leave. ❜

❛ you made it into an art form, this quiet sort of violence. ❜

❛ i want to live. but i want to live in the world, not on the outskirts of it. ❜

❛ love is violence, my darling, it is a thunderstorm that tears apart your world. ❜

❛ love makes monsters of us, [ name ] and not everyone is cut out for monstrosity. ❜

❛ [ name], our sunlight, our destroyer. my prince cast in marble and gold. ❜

❛ he was as inevitable as a revolution, and heralded in just as much violence. ❜

❛ potential. you always loved that word. you were drawn to potential like a shark to blood. ❜

❛ look around you. what sort of life is this? ❜

❛ i craved you like maidens crave the grave, the way death burns for human touch: inconsolably, unrelentingly, aching for the annihilation in your kiss. ❜

❛ i still wanted to believe I was living in a fairy tale, that i laid down every night with a prince instead of a wolf. ❜

❛ before your time dear, just some dreadful victorians. ❜

❛ it took every ounce of self-control i had not to pin him down and tear out his throat. ❜

❛ the world has no place for us, we are wanderers by nature, lions among lambs. ❜

❛ we cannot exist only for each other. ❜

❛ i had never allowed myself to want this because i assumed it wasn’t a possibility. ❜

❛ i love you. look at me, [ name ], my jewel, my wife. i love you. don’t do this. ❜

❛ i was tired of waiting expectantly at your tomb every night for you to rise and bring light into my world once again. ❜

❛ i made you into my private christ, supplicated with my own dark devotions. nothing existed beyond the range of your exacting gaze, not even me. ❜

❛ i apologize if you were expecting contrition, my lord. i don’t have any to muster. ❜

❛ here's your demon, do what you will with him. ❜

❛ i think, someday, i would like to fall in love again. ❜

[poohsources]

🐝  *  ―  𝑰𝑹𝑶𝑵 𝑭𝑳𝑨𝑴𝑬 𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑺.

❛  i will already know, as i am continuously with you. forced to bear witness to the awkwardness that is twenty-one-year-old humans.  ❜ ❛  you do not have the right to burn what is mine.  ❜ ❛  [name], remember it's only the body that's fragile. you are unbreakable.  ❜ ❛  i'm still not making it easy. but you and i are not easy people.  ❜ ❛  the hardest battles aren't fought with weapons but with the heart.  ❜ ❛  strength of courage is more important than physical strength.  ❜ ❛  you're my gravity. nothing in my world works without you.  ❜ ❛  you're capable of hurting me in ways i'm not sure you've even begun to fathom, [name]. i might be skilled enough to land a death blow, but you alone have the power to fucking destroy me.  ❜ ❛  i'm a fucking fool for saying this, but when haven't i been a fool when it comes to you?  ❜ ❛  as complicated as our connection is, it's also undeniably simple. he's the horizon, and nothing exists beyond for me.  ❜ ❛  i'm sorry if you expect me to do the noble thing. i warned you. i'm not sweet or soft or kind, and you fell anyway. this is what you get, [name] - me. the good, the bad, the unforgivable. all of it. i am yours.  ❜ ❛  i think i liked you better before you decided that feelings were something we need to discuss.  ❜ ❛  how long do you think it takes for someone to fall out of love?  ❜ ❛  love doesn't even have the decency to die. it just transforms into abject misery.  ❜ ❛  i love you. the world does not exists for me beyond you.  ❜ ❛  i chose you not as my next, but as my last, and should you fall, then i will follow.  ❜ ❛  i would have done the same thing you did because i'm just as reckless for you as you are for me.  ❜ ❛  don't offer me your body unless you're offering me everything. i want you more than i want to fuck you. i want those three little words back.  ❜ ❛  that trick you mentioned? you know, with the fingers? thanks.  ❜ ❛  me? argue with you about books? i only pick fights i can win.  ❜ ❛  the four of us stick together. that's the deal. we make it to graduation, no matter what.  ❜ ❛  yeah, well, it cost me you.  ❜ ❛  i need to know you'll be there. that no matter what happens, you'll come back so we can talk it out or fight it out.  ❜ ❛  i know who you really are, [name]. even when you keep things from me, i know you.  ❜ ❛  all this time, you've been convincing everyone you're the hero, and now you'll be the villain ... especially in her story.  ❜ ❛  that question insults me.  ❜ ❛  whatever is going through that beautiful mind, i'm here for it.  ❜ ❛  i want you more than my next breath, but i can't fuck you into looking at me like you used to. i refuse to use sex as a tool to get you back.  ❜ ❛  shit. what is this? jealousy? anxiety? insecurity?  ❜ ❛  are you trying to bring me to my knees? or win the argument?  ❜ ❛  just remember who trained me.  ❜ ❛  you never let me have any fun.  ❜ ❛  you want to know something true? something real? i love you. i'm in love with you.  ❜ ❛  less than a minute. that's how long it took for you to fall out of love with me.  ❜ ❛  i'd rather you scream at me than pretend everything is all right with silence.  ❜ ❛  so scared i'm pretty sure either my heart's going to give out or i'm about to shit myself.  ❜ ❛  you want full disclosure when it comes to me, right?  ❜ ❛  you aren't where i left you, [name].  ❜ ❛  stories can change depending on who tells them.  ❜ ❛  i don't miss the woman i was, the one who didn't know her strength.  ❜

[dracodelight]

@realmsrogue asked: ❛ You have as much claim to grief as anyone. ❜

The   words   hung   between   them   like   the   smoke   of   dragonfire—dense,   lingering,   impossible   to   ignore.   She   did   not   move,   save   for   the   slow   curl   of   her   fingers   around   the   edge   of   the   carved   table.   The   candlelight   cast   shadows   across   her   face,   softening   the   lines   that   grief   had   etched   there.   It   was   not   the   truth   of   Daemon’s   words   that   made   them   difficult,   but   the   permission   within   them.   She   had   held   her   sorrow   close,   guarded   it   like   a   blade   in   the   dark,   unwilling   to   show   weakness   when   the   realm   already   doubted   her   strength.

❛   As   much   claim,   ❜   she   repeated   quietly,   though   there   was   no   mirth   in   her   voice,   only   a   bitterness   that   clung   to   the   edges.   ❛   Yet   mine   is   the   only   claim   they   seek   to   strip   away.   My   crown,   my   sons,   my   name—grief   feels   like   luxury   when   war   claws   at   every   part   of   me.   ❜   Her   voice   didn’t   rise,   but   it   hardened,   as   if   honed   by   every   loss   she   had   swallowed   instead   of   spoken.   She   turned   her   face   toward   him,   and   though   her   eyes   were   rimmed   with   tiredness,   they   sparked   with   something   raw,   something   unspent.   An   ache   too   long   contained.

She   breathed   in   deeply,   as   though   it   pained   her,   then   exhaled   slower   than   needed.   ❛   If   I   weep,   they   call   me   weak.   If   I   rage,   they   call   me   mad.   And   if   I   do   nothing…   they   ask   if   I   feel   at   all.   ❜   Her   gaze   drifted   past   him,   to   the   darkened   window   where   Syrax   circled   in   the   night   skies,   dancing   around   with   Caraxes,   as   if   to   show   she   could   enjoy   the   world.   The   separation   had   been   hard   for   her   dragon,   and   she   missed   Daemon's   steadiness.   ❛   What   does   a   queen   do,   when   even   her   grief   is   questioned   like   her   birthright?   ❜   And   yet,   despite   it   all,   she   did   not   pull   away   from   him.   Perhaps,   even   now,   part   of   her   needed   to   hear   it   again.   That   she   was   allowed   to   grieve.   That   someone   still   saw   the   woman   beneath   the   crown.

[dracodelight]

Describe her bond with Syrax

The bond between Syrax and Rhaenyra is one of the deepest and most emotionally resonant connections between a dragon and rider that we see both in show and the book. It's not merely a matter of control or domination — it’s a visceral, spiritual tether that transcends speech and species. It appears that the bond appears to be symbiotic, even psychosomatic, with both sharing experiences in ways that suggest an emotional and perhaps even physiological mirror between them. During Rhaenyra’s miscarriage — a moment of immense physical agony and emotional trauma — Syrax roared from Dragonstone's cliffs, restless and grieving as if she could feel her rider’s pain. This is not a coincidence. Dragons are known to respond to the death or suffering of their riders, but Syrax’s cry during the miscarriage is uniquely intimate. It suggests a living thread of awareness between them, as though Syrax's heart beat in sync with Rhaenyra’s, breaking when hers did. We also have accounts that during Rhaenyra's pregnancies, Syrax laid a clutch of dragon eggs. This synchronicity implies a deeper biological link, almost as if their bodies were attuned to the same rhythms — cycles of creation, gestation, and ultimately, loss. It could be interpreted as a magical echo: the forging of life in one sparking the same in the other. It's a haunting parallel, one that blurs the line between dragonrider and dragon, suggesting their fates are literally entwined. Her bond with Syrax seems to transcend that of a weapon or mount; Syrax is her confidante, her other self, perhaps the only creature who ever saw Rhaenyra without her crown, her pride, her fury. That their connection was so potent even after years of disuse (as Syrax was kept mostly chained during the later years) underscores how unbreakable it was. Their bond is so in sync that even they seem to gravitate toward the same dragon/rider couples. When she was with Laenor, while not together psychically, Seasmoke was Syrax mate and then, when she and Daemon married, Caraxes was her mate and the one that was known by the dragonkeepers who clocked the union of the dragons.

[dracodelight]

Did she love Harwin Strong?

She did. He offered her comfort and companionship in a moment of her life she felt alone and dreaded that feeling, away from her father and family. Laenor was her friend, but he had his own companion and having Harwin there, first as a friend and later as a lover, made that abscence of family close, specially when the pregnancies began to happen. Laenor was in the known and he still accepted the children as his own and Harwin understood his own role in the whole dynamic, even if it hurt them that distance had to be kept. She loved him dearly and holds him to her heart and everytime she sees Jace, Luke and Joff, she sees Harwin, little pieces of the man he was, strong and gentle but firm in their convictions. It wasn't the greatest love story or the love story she wanted (that is reserved for that love that burns her as much as she burns them), he offered her calm and soft winds when she could had burn herself. He was the same Laena was to Daemon. At that point of her life, she needed Harwin, and what he offered her, and she mourned him.

[dracodelight]

What are her opinions on the children (hers with Laenor, hers with Daemon, and Daemon’s with Laena) individually?

Rhaenyra loves all of her children equally. Despite what some might think, she doesn't play favorite but she is realistic to realize some of her children have more insecurities than others. Luke clearly had more doubts about himself than Jace while growing up and his place as heir to Driftmark and of course the show's making it very clear they are bastards (again, i would had preferred the show to go the book route to make it more dubious and all that). Aegon and Viserys are still very much babies and they need attention so she tries to be with them most days (and photos of her and daemon's room show that there is a cot and crib for children so likely, they slept with them some nights). Rhaena and Baela, she adores, because they are part of Laena and she loved Laena, and was there through the pregnancy and wanted to be more present in their life. And having her own stepmother, she wishes to not repeat that cycle and for the twins to like her. She treats her as her children but also give them freedom that she might not give her own. And of course, if she had been able to carry Visenya to term, she would had adored her, as her only daughter, but sadly, that never came to be.

[dracodelight]

ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴍʏ ʜᴀʟꜰ-ʙʀᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴍʏ ᴛʜʀᴏɴᴇ, ᴏʀ ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʜɪꜱ ʜᴇᴀᴅ.

Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, the Black Queen of the Dance of the Dragons, from HBO's House of the Dragon and George R.R. Martin Fire and Blood and A Song of Ice and Fire. Written by Cali.

[dracodelight]

ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴍʏ ʜᴀʟꜰ-ʙʀᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴍʏ ᴛʜʀᴏɴᴇ, ᴏʀ ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʜɪꜱ ʜᴇᴀᴅ.

Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, the Black Queen of the Dance of the Dragons, from HBO's House of the Dragon and George R.R. Martin Fire and Blood and A Song of Ice and Fire. Written by Cali.

[dracodelight]

Just a heads up: looks like @xRealmsDelightx on Twitter is stealing your graphics.

Thank you! All i can do is report them

[dracodelight]

do i make a new simple promo like the one i did for my daemon.

[dracodelight]

ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴍʏ ʜᴀʟꜰ-ʙʀᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴍʏ ᴛʜʀᴏɴᴇ, ᴏʀ ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʜɪꜱ ʜᴇᴀᴅ.

Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, the Black Queen of the Dance of the Dragons, from HBO's House of the Dragon and George R.R. Martin Fire and Blood and A Song of Ice and Fire. Written by Cali.

[resourcesinblue]

becoming elizabeth.

the following prompts were taken from the starz series becoming elizabeth, a period drama set in tudor england, following the life of the future queen elizabeth the first after her father’s death, & during her brother’s reign. some prompts have been lightly edited for roleplaying suitability. please note — these prompts may include mentions of blood, war, death, & other things some might find upsetting. feel free to change pronouns & prompts as you see fit !

❛ the [ king / queen ] is dead. long live the [ king / queen. ] ❜

❛ there. you’ve said your goodbyes now. ❜

❛ can a [ king / queen / title ] not speak for themselves ? ❜

❛ wait for instructions, & have faith. ❜

❛ already the wheels are turning, & no - one even takes breath to grieve. ❜

❛ they won’t make us wait to marry, will they ? ❜

❛ we’re ahead of them all for now. we need to keep it that way. ❜

❛ don’t let them see you doing that. ❜

❛ you’re not a child anymore, you’re the [ king / queen / title. ] ❜

❛ the court can be a forest of opinion, with no clear path through it. ❜

❛ you saw how they swarmed around [ name ], even as they were dying. ❜

❛ a great hole has opened up in the world, & men are going to be scrambling to fill it. ❜

❛ the more you let in, the more you leave yourself exposed. ❜

❛ a [ king / queen ] is made by marriage to a [ queen / king. ] whether they’re dead or alive is not the issue. ❜

❛ to act like age is any protection from the designs of men ! ❜

❛ you look thin & you look sad. ❜

❛ pay no attention to the designs of men. they forget them as quickly as they make them. ❜

❛ i’ve seen it many times, [ name ], you galloping away from the trouble you started. ❜

❛ well, how disappointing to be remembered for what i am, rather than who i am. status over personhood. ❜

❛ would you have remembered me if it was not for my status ? ❜

❛ what do you think you’re doing, barely dressed & out here ? ❜

❛ what devil down there is playing finger puppets with us all ? ❜

❛ yes, i am still here, full of regret, & shame, & wine. ❜

❛ so have your tutors assigned me as something for you to study ? what lesson am i ? ❜

❛ we’ll find you a bucket of water for you to dunk your head in, sober you up. ❜

❛ please stop flirting so outrageously with [ name ] ! ❜

❛ you’re offering me the [ king’s / queen’s ] ear, are you ? ❜

❛ actually, i’d like to offer you the [ king’s / queen’s ] hand. ❜

❛ best marry you while i have the chance, then. ❜

❛ i shouldn’t have to send an army to fetch a [ husband / wife ] for myself. ❜

❛ your & my opinions, [ name ], are best kept to ourselves, for they are of no worth. ❜

❛ i don’t believe i outrank anyone, really. ❜

❛ you up here craving power, [ name / title ] ?  ❜

❛ ah, well, i’m quite sick of decisions, myself; quite overwhelmed by them. ❜

❛ you learn much more about your parents after they’re dead than you ever did when they were alive. ❜

❛ so, what had you done to deserve a clap in the face ? ❜

❛ i had ideas of marrying people i should not, & i was sent away for it. ❜

❛ there have been a great number of movements at court. ❜

❛ i only wanted to know more of court. ❜

❛ i’m still in mourning, & you’d now have me gossip with you like a fishwife ? ❜

❛ i carry the sins of my [ mother / father. ] ❜

❛ i never dreamt you’d have such new & sudden - found maturity. ❜

❛ wait ? to be sold off again to the highest bidder ? how do you think i ended up in [ name ]’s bed to start with ? ❜

❛ no [ man / woman ] with any wit should allow themselves to become a piece for barter in other people’s games. ❜

❛ i’ve been trapped at court like a fly under a glass. ❜

❛ if only problems at home were as easily solved as they are here, with a sword & some strength of character. ❜

❛ i dread the day when my enemies have managed to pay for your sword. ❜

❛ perhaps you would permit me to ride with you one day. ❜

❛ have you really been as foolish as i hear you’ve been ? ❜

❛ you consider me a valuable piece in this game, whether you admit it or not. ❜

❛ is no - one to marry for love ? ❜

❛ do you know what rooms like this become for women ? cattle sales, as owners barter over our value. ❜

❛ it’s treason, what we’ve done. ❜

❛ speak for your own weakness, & your frailty, & your lack of ambition. ❜

❛ you really expect me to believe you married them for love ? ❜

❛ i trust you no more than i trust a rabid dog. ❜

❛ well, war is never over. so with any luck, you’ll still get yourself killed. ❜

❛ i wanted not to look a fool ! ❜

❛ talk like this again, i will have you whipped. ❜

❛ some still say you’re a bastard. ❜

❛ i should strike you for thinking such a thing. ❜

❛ you think i’ve ever got what i wanted ? ❜

❛ never be sorry for a personality, [ name. ] ❜

❛ i find it hard to picture you a matchmaker. ❜

❛ if only we were all free. free to act as we choose. to do what we want. if only. ❜

❛ [ name / title ], do you not know what this sound requires of you ? ❜

❛ pray, when will you stop torturing me ? ❜

❛ i wanted to check if you were always going to look at me like this, or if it were only temporary. ❜

❛ i am sorry that my marriage caused this. ❜

❛ believe it or not, your opinion means a great deal to me. ❜

❛ i will end up like my [ father / mother / relative ], banished & alone. ❜

❛ the world wants us at odds, we don’t have to let it be that way. ❜

❛ people pay far less heed to what i’m doing thank you think, [ name. ] ❜

❛ i have no effect on the standing of anyone in this world. ❜

❛ i’m not trying to hurt you, i’m trying to warn you. ❜

❛ i have no opinion on who or what you marry. you are of no consequence to me. ❜

❛ for your safety, your sanity, come to me. ❜

❛ it was, as you so often tell me, a hideous time, so why do you need these reminders of it ? ❜

❛ everyone thinks i am a fool to have married you.❜

❛ i won’t speak ill of any [ man / woman ] with ambition. ❜

❛ all women are used. choose who to be used by. ❜

❛ i suppose other people’s money is an easy currency to spend. ❜

❛ we will not surrender because you feel the strain on your wrist reaching into your pocket, or because you were born without pride. ❜

❛ if this is the price of staying at court, i will return to the country. ❜

❛ spied on by royalty, what an honour. ❜

❛ why must i always be the spectator ? why can’t i just this once play the part ? ❜

❛ if only you held the scripture a little more dear. ❜

❛ i worry sometimes that history’s going to repeat itself. ❜

❛ you may hiss & tease & hate me, but you may not disbelieve me when i say that you are magnificent, for you are. ❜

❛ you may well ruin my life, [ name. ] & i’d fucking let you, if you’d like to. ❜

❛ i have seen sensible men & sensible women die all around me, & yet i stay standing. ❜

❛ i wish you’d tell me who you’re writing to, with such impenetrable dedication. ❜

❛ i’m old enough to make my own decisions without counsel. ❜

❛ the country is a powder keg. our duty is to stop anyone lighting either fuse. ❜

❛ spring has come & gone, my love. all should be renewed. ❜

❛ if you do still mourn them, know that the dead want us free, for they are. ❜

❛ i would not keep reading a letter that has caused as much pain as that one has. ❜

❛ they are a loaded canon, & the game of court is to see which gunner can fire their rage in the right direction. ❜

❛ forgive me, [ name ], but i cannot fuck the threat away this time. ❜

❛ freedom comes by the leave of others, i’ve learned. ❜

❛ i do not believe you have the ability to keep your word. ❜

❛ you wish me to tear apart my own family & my own country ? ❜

❛ it’s quite extraordinary how people can see so much, but they cannot see themselves. ❜

❛ i think they don’t scheme & plot against you & i. i think they don’t think of us at all. ❜

❛ beauty really is wasted on the young. you don’t use it, or believe in it, & just when you start to, it disappears. ❜

❛ somewhat forgotten now, though, aren’t you ? ❜

❛ even i can divine the true purpose of these celebrations, & they’re not for me. ❜

❛ do i have your leave to speak freely ? i’d hate to presume the right to an opinion again. ❜

❛ you wield your power as a royal readily enough, so you clearly have not forgotten it. ❜

❛ perhaps just mind that others have not your power. ❜

❛ you know me. why can’t you take my side ? ❜

❛ i will always be on your side against those that wrong you, but when you use your energy in shitting on those weaker, i choose neutrality. ❜

❛ i’m sure it was unpleasant to be you just then, but it’s most unsettling to be me, & to have caused it. ❜

❛ my dress is only for tonight. do not spoil it, else my revelation of tolerance for you will be short - lived indeed. ❜

❛ do you know how awful it is, to be forced to live with that bastard ? ❜

❛ i know who you are now, [ name. ] i will not speak out of turn to you again. ❜

❛ i take no pleasure, though, in making myself small to ease the fears of others. ❜

❛ lord, how will things ever be done with these constant dances we must perform ? ❜

❛ i am the [ king / queen / title ], not you ! i am to be consulted, i am to be obeyed ! ❜

❛ i am not even given say over myself, it seems. ❜

❛ you are in this room not to rule, but to learn from those that do — from me. ❜

❛ look, we’re not gonna have a performance over last night, are we ? ❜

❛ i married a [ man / woman ] of little wit or judgement. ❜

❛ i believe you may think you saw something last night that you did not. ❜

❛ i did not believe that you had been cast in the same mold as your [ mother / father / relative. ] ❜

❛ we cannot replay this moment. choose carefully how you act in it. ❜

❛ i tried to teach you the way this great game we find ourselves in is played. well, even if i say it myself, i have been a most excellent teacher. ❜

❛ what will it be, then ? it isn’t how it seemed, or, [ she / he ] seduced me ? ❜

❛ forgive me, i skipped ahead. you are in two minds over something else ? ❜

❛ i’m glad you know the truth without me telling you, & my mind without me speaking it ! ❜

❛ you do yourself a disservice to pretend to be so cold. ❜

❛ did you think them a better puppet if you used your cock instead of strings ? ❜

❛ choose [ her / him ], if you want. it won’t end well for them, for you. ❜

❛ i would that we had been married long ago. ❜

❛ the way the world thinks of you, what it says, is precious. it can protect you, or it can end you. ❜

❛ what you’ve done does not matter. it’s what people think you have done is all that matters now. ❜

❛ affection must not slip into overfamiliarity. ❜

❛ i know you find me rude, [ name. ] i do apologize for it every time  ❜

❛ no letters have come for you. i have told you i would tell you if they did. ❜

❛ i imagined you’d taken a silly fancy to them. but this … ❜

❛ how knowledgeable you are in these matters. ❜

❛ if word gets out, then we will both lose our heads. ❜

❛ what pain you have caused, & shame you have brought. ❜

❛ i thought you were planning to marry me to the [ king / queen / title. ] ❜

❛ never forget that you’re worth more than any [ man / woman ] who’s lucky to marry you. ❜

❛ do you know what they say of you ? ❜

❛ how can i know what others say when i’m not there ? ❜

❛ i’m sorry for the letter i sent. ❜

❛ i know you think yourself cleverer than me, & in truth, you may well be right. ❜

❛ even the cleverest need learn, & for that, they must listen to those with experience. trust me, i have plenty. ❜

❛ you will come with me to court, & we’ll show the lies for what they are. ❜

❛ whose idea was it for you to come here, of all places ? ❜

❛ they wish us to fight it out to the death & hope they’re standing behind a winner at the end. ❜

❛ don’t hand me the power to destroy you & then ask me not to use it. ❜

❛ you trying to stuff your wad into every young purse with a claim to the throne ? ❜

❛ i hate this. it’s like watching a greek tragedy, the end foretold from the start. ❜

❛ i haven’t come to fight with you. let’s do something that we enjoy. ❜

❛ there’s been enough gossip flapping around your house that it took flight & reached mine. ❜

❛ are you so very proud of your own actions that you present this face to me ? ❜

❛ after all that you have been through, all that i have seen & admired, you choose this ? ❜

❛ all your fine tutors of latin & greek, yet no - one taught you this ? ❜

❛ you wouldn’t look at me like that if you knew what i had done. ❜

❛ i know you are taken to drama, [ name ], but you could have spared it on this one occasion. ❜

❛ you are the only player in this game worrying about the rules. ❜

❛ as god persectures me, i think his greatest trick is that he leaves you still well alone. ❜

❛ your view out onto the world, [ name ], is a little different from the one that the rest of us have. ❜

❛ i’ve spent my whole life waiting for men to prove themselves honourable, but no matter how decent or pious, they all had their price. ❜

❛ ambition is much admired in men, but derided in women. ❜

❛ the crown forgives your absence, & welcomes your return. ❜

❛ it has been three nights you’ve spent in my garden, staring up at my window. ❜

❛ if there’s one thing i’ve come to learn is an inevitability with you, [ name ], it’s that you change your mind as often as the sea. ❜

❛ when we last spoke, you said you were in love with me. ❜

❛ i’ve come to you for a new life, not for us to beat ourselves with misery & the past. ❜

❛ i’d been all but banished from this place, but i fought my way back. ❜

❛ i will not give up my victories to marry in the shadows. ❜

❛ you know, sometimes it’s good to share your worries with an inferior, inconsequential person. ❜

❛ i know you will not believe that you owe me an explanation, but try to take my word for it here when i tell you that you fucking do. ❜

❛ i’ve made a mistake, haven’t i ? this choice, it was the wrong one. ❜

❛ this is a chance to make something good & whole from the ruins of before. ❜

❛ it’s too late for what is good, what is easy, but you can still do what is right. ❜

❛ they say you are refusing to speak. do you wish me to have you tortured ? ❜

❛ is this what love looks like, coming from you ? ❜

❛ i believe i’m allowed the privacy of my own feelings if kept within my own head. ❜

❛ i hoped you would continue to have goodwill towards me. ❜

❛ what conclusions you draw, without ever hearing my testimony. ❜

❛ well, you must be very pleased, having poisoned every man against me. ❜

❛ what cannot be cured must be endured, [ name. ] ❜

❛ i, too, have done deeds & said things in order to keep myself safe. they will sit heavy on your heart the rest of your life. ❜

❛ what happened to you all ? everyone & everything came back quite changed. ❜

❛ having, seemingly with great surprise, discovered yourself unpopular, must you flap & hiss like a goose at any hand of friendship extended to you ? ❜

❛ if the hand is yours, [ name ], you best keep it out of my reach, or else i’ll break it. ❜

❛ i have always stood by you, & now i only ask you for what you’ve always had of me. ❜

❛ you must stop that. no [ husband / wife ] will stand for that kind of boldness. ❜

❛ you cannot allow yourself to be sold off to another court. ❜

❛ you were always so keen to prove that our positions in this world were alike. ❜

❛ stop fighting to stay free, as if our hands are not already tied, as if they haven’t always been. ❜

❛ if this was the path god decided, you wouldn’t have to struggle to stay on it. ❜

❛ i wish i had listened to you long ago. ❜

❛  love marriages are for peasants wishing to fuck without sin. ❜

❛ unlike everyone else, choosing their path based on what has the least risk & what has the most gain, you simply do what you believe is right. i have never known anything like it. ❜

❛ the story for me here is already writ. i knew it long ago, i always have. & i know the end. however … perhaps i do not need to stay for it. ❜

❛ if you wish to hide from me, do not hide in places that i’ve shown you are good for hiding in. ❜

❛ i know you hold them in great disdain, but do you know how like them you are ? ❜

❛ we can do what you want, we can do whatever you like, please, please, just don’t go in there. ❜

❛ how dare you act as if my life was as simple as this, & that only you know that ? ❜

❛ i can apologise to you later, but first just answer the question … do you love me ? ❜

❛ if you do this, you are on your own. ❜

❛ why do you assume they will return your loyalty just because you have decided to give it ? ❜

❛ i didn’t know where to go, & so i found myself riding here. ❜

❛ you haven’t thought of me at all since i left, have you ? ❜

❛ i see you are determined to make amends, but perhaps start with actions, rather than words. ❜

❛ why do you ask me to do that when you know that i can’t ? ❜

❛ i wonder if we’d have thought it worth all the death & blood we spent in changing the world the first time if we’d known it’d be changing back. ❜

❛ i feel like i’m meant to apologize for being in here. ❜

❛ it is an impossible thing i am looking at now, but then again, i have lived through impossible times before. ❜

❛ i’m here for the one who came to me & promised me freedom. ❜

❛ i did believe that you had taken flight from both court & your sense as some sort of protest at the injustice in your life. ❜

❛ i suppose neither of us had possession of one another. ❜

❛ i’m sorry to have not remained in mourning for you for the rest of my life. ❜

❛ we’re married, or do you sometimes forget ? ❜

❛ you want to upset the whole world to give you, what, power ? ❜

❛ if you wish to murder me, [ name ], do it better ! ❜

❛ whenever there’s a chance of power, a man will always come to a woman who can give it to them. ❜

❛ enough damage, enough lives have been lost in pursuit of want rather than duty. ❜

❛ i believe i am worth your attention right now, for what other option do you have ? ❜

❛ you’d perhaps have done better to keep me as a friend. ❜

❛ you can’t change the game we find ourselves in. you can only play it. ❜

❛ i fear my own family just as much as i fear yours. ❜

❛ do you think you do not somehow answer to me, [ name ] ? for you do. ❜

❛ quite the unfortunate hand you played, [ name. ] ❜

❛ the truth that hits me again & again is that i have no love for you. ❜

❛ i know you like to think that i am raised up while you are trodden down. ❜

❛ you could choose the quiet life, & you do not. you choose this. ❜

❛ you are no victim. ❜

[dresupi]

Arranged Marriage Prompts

Royalty AU - Promised at birth

Royalty AU - To end a war

Royalty AU - Marriage Law - every royal must marry a commoner chosen by the advisor to keep the bloodlines clean

Mythology - Foretold by the gods

Mythology - The prophecy said, so Person A and Person B are here to get hitched!

Mythology - Hades and Persephone AU

Regency AU - Either Person A or Person B is in danger of being ruined socially

Regency AU - Person A inheriting Person B’s father’s estate and the only way to keep Person B’s family out of the poor house is for Person B to marry Person A.

Regency AU - One of them compromised the other

Old West AU - Mail Order Spouse(Person A) to keep Person B’s house bc Person B is a dirty single person and a mess alone

Old West AU - Person A needs money to pay off their debtors, Person B needs a spouse for decency’s sake. Also, there are horses.

Old West AU - Person A’s parents sent them out west to marry someone. That someone is Person B and Person B is also the only sheriff round these parts.

It’s the law (Marriage law with chosen partners)

Medieval AU - To unite Person A and Person B’s houses

Medieval AU - Person A’s father chose Person B, also it’s the law

Medieval AU - to End a feud

Viking AU - Person A is traded to the Vikings for safe passage and is subsequently married to the jarl’s oldest child, Person B. 

Pirate AU - Person A’s crew raided the village and their cut of the booty is a locked chest. With Person B inside. 

Fae AU - Person A’s hapless parents promised them to the Fae King (Person B)

Fae AU - The Fae King (Person A) tricks Person B into eating something in Faerie. 

“Don’t worry, I would never touch you.”

“We’re all the other has now, we’d do well to play nice”

“You don’t have to love me.”

“It’s just until we produce an heir…”

“I’m not expecting anything from you.”

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